Ms. Julee Kim Walker

Flutist Julee Kim Walker remains an active performer and teacher in the DFW and Texoma regions. She is Adjunct Professor of Flute and Oboe at Southeastern Oklahoma State University in Durant, OK, and also teaches courses in Chamber Music, Music Literature and Appreciation, and Woodwind Methods/Pedagogy. She is also Adjunct Professor of Music at Grayson County College in Denison, TX, where she teaches Applied Woodwinds, Fundamentals of Theory, and Music Appreciation courses. Ms. Walker received her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Texas at Austin and her Master’s degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She is currently a Doctoral Candidate (ABD) at the University of North Texas, where she has taught as a Teaching Fellow. Ms. Walker currently serves on the Board of Directors in the Oklahoma Flute Society and the Texas Flute Society.

As a versatile chamber musician, she has performed and recorded with the jazz chamber group, Evan Weiss Project, and with the rock band Oso Closo. At UNT, she was flutist for the Center for Chamber Music’s Graduate Woodwind Quintet and worked with the UNT NOVA New Music Ensemble. Julee has also performed and recorded with the North Texas Wind Symphony under Eugene Corporon, where she can be heard on Klavier Recording Project, GIA WindWorks and the “Teaching Music Through Performance in Band” series from 2005-2009. In 2006, she appeared as soloist with the American Wind Symphony Orchestra in southern Louisiana, and has performed at the TMEA, TBA, and WASBE Conventions. Overseas, she was flutist for the Austrian American Mozart Academy Opera Festival in Salzburg for 3 seasons, and performed as Principal flutist with the Franco-American Vocal Academy Opera Festival this past August in southern France. In April 2012, she will be featured soloist with the Southeastern Symphonic Winds, performing Joel Puckett’s “The Shadow of Sirius” for Flute and Wind Ensemble.

Ms. Walker currently serves as the piccoloist for the South Arkansas Symphony and the Sherman Symphony Orchestras, and also has performed with the Las Colinas Symphony Orchestra and Principal with the Amarillo Symphony Orchestra. Recently, she was invited to play Principal flute with the Shreveport Summer Music Festival, as well as the UANL Orquestra Sinfonica in Monterrey, Mexico. She was also a finalist in the U.S. Army Field Band audition, and was runner-up for the U.S. Military Academy Band at West Point piccolo audition. Ms. Walker’s primary teachers have included Terri Sundberg, Tim Day, Karl Kraber, Christina Jennings, September Payne, Helen Blackburn, and Elizabeth McNutt.

Ms. Walker can be contacted at jkim@se.edu.